Teaching · Related Services

Write the cognitive section from the scores, not around them.

Enter each score you will report with its interval and what the classroom shows. The page puts them on one yardstick and drafts the section twice: once for the report, once for the family.

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The cognitive section

One record per evaluation, dated. The example is made up.

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Teaching · Related Services$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A draft cognitive section for one evaluation in report wording and in family wording, with every score described the same way and the gaps flagged.
Who it is for
School psychologists, educational diagnosticians and interns writing evaluation reports.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved record per evaluation; printed with both drafts or as a blank form; CSV of the scores; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
bars become sentences
Drawn for this page. A score profile only helps a family or teacher once it is written as sentences about the student’s school day.

How to use it

  1. Say whether the results are a valid estimate, and why if not.
  2. Add each score as printed, with its metric and confidence interval.
  3. Add a short classroom phrase for each ability, written so it follows the student code.
  4. Read both drafts and edit the wording in your report template.
  5. Replace the code with the student’s name only in the final report.

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How the drafts are built

Why one yardstick

Reports mix standard scores, scaled scores and T scores. Converting each to its distance from the mean in standard deviations, and a percentile under the normal curve, lets every ability be described in the same words. Percentiles here come from the normal curve, not the publisher’s tables, so they can differ by a point from the score report.

Why a family version

Families read “a standard score of 76” as a grade. Saying how many of 100 students the same age scored at or below the student’s level, and pairing it with what the student does in class, is clearer and closer to what the number means.

What it is not

It interprets nothing on its own: every sentence is a fixed frame filled with your entries. It holds no norms or descriptive labels, and decides no eligibility.

Sources

  1. American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association and National Council on Measurement in Education (2014). Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing: chapters on score reporting and interpretation.
  2. National Association of School Psychologists (2020). Principles for Professional Ethics, standard II.3: understandable reports for those who receive them.
  3. Lichtenberger, E. O., Mather, N., Kaufman, N. L., and Kaufman, A. S. (2004). Essentials of Assessment Report Writing. Wiley.
  4. Sattler, J. M. (2018). Assessment of Children: Cognitive Foundations and Applications (6th ed.): the normal curve, confidence intervals and report writing.

The example student and scores are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.